@surjit1754-2008...
Please understand one thing very clearly that ebay will never keep your refund on hold unless the sellers specifically makes a request to ebay to hold the refund. So whichever seller has told you such a thing is telling a lie.
2nd part is that when you are so upset with this issue then why don't you not make the sellers id public so that all buyers can benefit from it. Why do you have a soft corner for some seller who has conned you. The seller should feel ashamed, not you.
Ebay should punish those sellers who list items without having stocks and those sellers who provide false shipping information(well that is reduced to some extent when ebay introduced "Powershipping"-but again sellers who use powershipping have no logo or mark displayed like powerseller logo so that buyers can come to know that this seller uses ebay powershipping).
Ebay should never compromise on these 2 aspects ever.
Please make the sellers name public now.
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